As part of its Coastal Resilience initiative, TNC is asking the public to submit documentation of: higher than normal water levels, coastal landslides or other big erosional events, and property damage from floods or landslides. Imagery should be georeferenced and can be shared by tagging it on Flickr with #elninoca, by emailing the imagery to elninoca@tnc.org, or uploading it via the Box upload page. The El Niño project page provides more detail about how to prepare the photos with the GPS information needed for the project.

The imagery collected from both smartphones and drones will be used to create open source maps and GIS data showing inundation areas, erosion events, and property damage. These maps will be used to assist the coastal planning community ground truth sea level rise flood models. The maps will also be used to help TNC figure out how nature can mitigate the impact of climate change on the coast.

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The Look of Maps: An Examination of Cartographic Design is a cartographic classic by Arthur H. Robinson originally published in 1952. The book was based on Robinson’s doctoral research “which investigated the relationship between science and art in cartography and the resultant refinement of graphic techniques in mapmaking to present dynamic geographic information.”